Samsung SCX-4500 is a mono multifunction device and a unique thing about this printer is that it is really attractive. Manufacturers usually don’t make beautiful printers and hence this was a welcome change that I saw in my labs. The feature set of this printer is very basic though. I haven’t reviewed any mono laser multifunction devices between $250 to $350 and hence I will make comparisons only to the more expensive devices. The cost of this device is $300 but I would recommend you to spend a bit more and go for the $400 more expensive printers because they have good feature set to offer for this price bump. You get goodies like advanced task features, auto duplexers, automatic document feeders, network-readiness, and fax capability. It really makes sense to spend the extra buck.
For instance, there is the Canon ImageClass MF4690 which costs $400 and comes with automatic document feeder, manual feed tray, fax capabilities, USB port (front-mounted) that can be used for printing and scanning, built-in duplexer, and Ethernet port for easy networking – all this just for $100 more. Samsung SCX-4500 is alluring but still you must know about the things that you don’t get.
In my lab tests, the Samsung SCX-4500 was slower than other multifunction devices in the competition which is not really surprising considering that it is $100 cheaper. Black text was printed at 13.05 ppm or pages per minute. It is one ppm slower than Canon MF4690 and much slower than the Dell 1815dn and the Lexmark X342n. Black graphic prints were slower at 12.68 ppm. For both the grayscale and color scans, the speed was somewhere in the middle at 6.20ppm along with grayscale and 4.80ppm for color.
I compared the Samsung SCX-4500 to Samsung SCX-4200, its sibling. The price of SCX-4200 is less by $180 but the task speeds are on par with that of SCX-4500. I also compared it to office-oriented inkjet multifunction costing $300 – HP OfficeJet Pro L7680. There are more inkjet printers in this price point. Samsung SCX-4500 was faster amongst the two but the feature set on HP is much better.
On the other hand, the Samsung model makes up for the slower speeds through better task quality. Black text prints nicely dark, clean and crisp. Grayscale graphics too were good but it had some minor cross hatching which I won’t complain about since it is common in such low priced printers.
Thank You : techsoft.org
In my lab tests, the Samsung SCX-4500 was slower than other multifunction devices in the competition which is not really surprising considering that it is $100 cheaper. Black text was printed at 13.05 ppm or pages per minute. It is one ppm slower than Canon MF4690 and much slower than the Dell 1815dn and the Lexmark X342n. Black graphic prints were slower at 12.68 ppm. For both the grayscale and color scans, the speed was somewhere in the middle at 6.20ppm along with grayscale and 4.80ppm for color.
On the other hand, the Samsung model makes up for the slower speeds through better task quality. Black text prints nicely dark, clean and crisp. Grayscale graphics too were good but it had some minor cross hatching which I won’t complain about since it is common in such low priced printers.
Thank You : techsoft.org
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